The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-06-04
News of the Week.

roasted and eaten at the barbecue of the
National Butchers Association in Chicago
last week.
Rees Willer, native of Wales, now living
in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, is said to be
only SO inches in height and So pounds in
weight. He is s4years old.
A telegram from San Francisco says the
bodies of GOO Chinese will be disinterred
there next week and shipped to China by
steamer for final interment.
Samuel Loring, aged 65 years. of Plymouth,
Massachusetts,, committed suicide at Fort
Monroe Virginia on Saturday morning. He
waded out into the water and cut his throat.
Ben: Perley Poore, the well-known news
paper correspondent and Congressional biog-
rapher, died in Washington soon after mid
night of Saturday in the 9th year of his age.
The Farmers Institute of the county of
Ontario, Canada, at special meeting on
Monday, unanimously adopted a resolution
declaring for free trade with the United
States.
Prof. Chas Sedhorf and his wife Matilda,
aged respectively 81 and 90 years, after long
and hopeless struggle with destitution, COM
mitted suicide on Tuesday at Union Hill, New
Jersey.
Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, has refused the
use of St. Stephens Hall, in that city, for
lecture by DIR. McGlynn, on the ground that
the latter sis in open rebellion against the
Church"
Richard Hardie, colored boy of ten years,
shot and fatally wounded himself at Charlotte,
South Carolina, last Friday, because his moth
er threatened to whip him for stealing eggs
from neighbor.
The boiler of the Natchez Cotton Factory,
at Natchez, Mississippi, exploded on Saturday
morning, greatly damaging the building and
killing four men. Seven other persons were
seriously injured.
A despatch to the Chicago Times says it is
estimated that the total losses by the forest
fires on the northern peninsula of Michigan
will reach 81 10000 Eight lives are known
to have been lost.
Olive oil, said to be of the finest quality, is
being made this season in Sonoma, CAL, and
the production of olives is confidently expected
to become one of the most important indus
tries OF the place.
A monster Clan ma Gael demonstration will
be held in Caledonian Park, Newark, New
Jersey on June 16. Prominent Irishmen
from New York, Philadelphia and other
places will be invited.
A steam omnibus, which is intended to run
regularly over country roads, is said to be
running now in Dresden, Saxony. Its man.
aged by two men, and carries As passengers,
with considerable freight.
The great strike of the building trades in
Chicago, begun four weeks ago, has resulted
in making 1900 men idle, and caused thus
far loss of 100000 in wages. Over 1000
first class mechanics have left the city.
A tornado passed over Upper Sandusky.
Ohio, Monday afternoon, doing great damage
to trees, fences, &c. The spire of the Catho
lie Church, 200 feet high, was blown over,
and the front of the church was wrecked.
A shanty at the No. shaft of the new
Croton Aqueduct, at Merritt's Corners, New
York, was burned early Sunday morning.
About IS men were sleeping in it at the time.
Two of them persisted, and two others were
severely burned.
A severe earthquake was experienced at
the City of Mexico and surrounding country,
last Sunday, about o clock a. m. The houses
rocked so violently that the whole population
was awakened, and thousands of people
dressed and went out into the streets and
would not return to their homes.
A grand inter state reunion of Union and
Confederate soldiers is to be held at Evans
vile, Indiana, in September next, under the
auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The reunion will take place week before the
meeting of the National Encampment of the
Grand Army.
At Quebec, on Monday, three men, named
Pilon, Jeanette and Madouin, were taken
sick while at work, and, medical aid being
procured, it was learned that they had been
poisoned. Jeanette and Madouin have since
died, and Pilon is still very sick. How the
men came to be poisoned is a mystery.
~ II.
Charles Peakes, dairyman, hearing burglars
around the house, raised window and was
fired at and MORALLY wounded. Three young
men Edward Birmingham, 0rry Judy and
Raymond Judy, who had previously been
employed by Peakes, were arrested and con-
fessed their guilt.
A west bound passenger train on the Penn
sylvania Railroad was nearing Kittaning Point
beyond Altoona, last Sunday night, when the
wheel of a car of a passing freight train broke,
and the disabled car was hurled against two
of the coaches of the passenger train. Four
men were killed, and eight passengers injur-
ed, two of them fatally.
&c. Hill, book agent for Cincinnati
firm, called at the house of Mr.. Terri, Is
miles east of Corsicanna, Texas, on Saturday,
and, finding no one in the place but Terri S
daughter, grossly nsulted her. She ordered
him away, and, going to field, informed her
father. The old man followed the agent with
gun, aud, overtaking him at a neighboring
farm, shot and wounded him so badly that he
died in few hours.
The boiler of an elevator in Huntingdon,
West Virginia, exploded on Monday morning,
completely wrecking the structure, and killing
I. II. Reese, John Kelly and W. X. Albert
son. A man named John Perry is missing
About fifteen others were injured, three of
them severely. The engine was one of an old
locomotive boiler that had been condemned
from the Chesapeake and Ohio road, and the
engineer was inexperienced.
In Brooklyn on Monday Townsend John
son and his brother Augustus confessed to
Fire Marshal Lewis that they set fire to
last Townsend also admits that he was
responsible for the 5000, 900 FIRE of last Satur-
day night, which started in the same cooper
age. Both men have signed an affidavit sett-
ing forth these facts and will plead guilty of
arson in the third degree They say they had
q grudge against Palmer.
Tom McDonough, well known character
about the docks at Richmond, Va, lost his
life Monday night as the result of a bet that
he could not swim across the dock. Some of
McDonough's companions in bar-room bet
four drinks of whiskey that he could not swim
across the dock. He accepted the wager, and
accompanied by crowd went to the water
and jumped in. When about two-t thirds across
McDonough went down and never appeared
again.
Reports were received in Reading, Pa, on
Tuesday, from various points in Berks, Leba-
non, Lehigh and neighboring counties, which
show that this years wheat will realize only
about half crop. The destructive Hessian
fly, which had entirely disappeared for the
past two years, is again ravaging the wheat
fields, and acres of it are dying in consequence.
The Colorado beetle, which has inhabited
these counties for the past thirteen years, is
also doing considerable damage.
AT the recent opening of bids for supplies
for the National Home of Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers at Hartford, Conn, the contract for
about 23, 900 yards of blue cloth and sky blue